VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES
For the Holidays
Stuff the Bus: Help Connect Transit and the Children’s Home + Aid Crisis Nursery make a difference in the lives of local babies and children in crisis! During the week of December 1-6, Connect Transit will park a bus at various locations throughout Bloomington-Normal to challenge the community to “stuff the bus” full of general baby and child (ages 6 and under) items for the Crisis Nursery.
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EPISODIC OR SHORT-TERM VOLUNTEERS:
Early Learning Center
- Family Fun nights
Healthy Start
- Organize drives for diapers, books or maternity clothes
- Helping prepare meals for groups
- Graduation events
- Family fun nights
- Office help (cleaning out file room, making copies, help with mailings, Web page experience would be very helpful)
Crisis Nursery
- Organize drives for diapers, books or maternity clothes
- Clean toys or rooms
ON-GOING VOLUNTEERS:
**Please note- All On-going volunteer opportunities require a medical screening with TB test, background and fingerprinting check.
Early Learning Center
- Lending library upkeep (help with checking books in and out)
- Reading books to children
- Music or art specialist to lead classes (at least 2 hours per month)
- Rocking babies
Healthy Start/Parents Care & Share/Kids Turn
- Children’s Program Specialist –offer age appropriate activities to children while their parents are in group meetings (evening hours). This position requires a little extra training.
Crisis Nursery
- Volunteers needed Monday through Friday anytime between 8am and 8pm. Most volunteers commit to coming at a regular time every other week or once a week depending on their schedule. The main duty of our volunteers is to take care of the children (ages 0-6 years old). That can mean baths, playtime, reading books, etc. When we do not have children scheduled, we need help cleaning toys and organizing the Nursery.
- Office help (cleaning out file room, making copies, help with mailings, Web page experience would be very helpful)
For information about volunteer opportunities in the Central Region, please contact Laura Cordero at lcordero@childrenshomeandaid.org.